Support for wire-cloth lathing



(No Model.)

W. ORR, Jr.

SUPPORT FOR WIRE O LOTH LATHING.

No. 278.263. Patented May 22,1883.

UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ORR, JR., or crnnntron, NEW JERSEY.

SUPPORT FOR WIRE-CLOTH LATHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,263, dated May 22, 1883.

Application filed Augnstll, 188-2. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WM. ORR, J12, of Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful improvement in the manner of applying wirecloth lathing to buildings where wood strips are used to fasten the lathing to-as floorjoist or furringstrips-or, as in the case of brick walls, where desirable to leave an airspace between the plastering and bricks, altogether avoiding the use of wood in brick walls of buildings, thus avoiding all possibility of fire being communicated to a building from defective dues, or transmitted from one story to another by working along the wood-work on the walls. This arrangement has great value also in buildingsused for summer hotels, &c., where the space is cut up into a great many rooms, and where a little space saved in the minor partitions would result in the addition to the size of each room, or in being able to add to their number. This could be done by running a broad partition between rooms and applying wire-cloth zgdathing to each side.

This would make the thickness of the partition two and one-fourth instead of five or six inches, as would be the case if three or four inch studding were used, and not only would this save room, but it would make each room practically fire-proof,

and limit a fire to the room in which it origi nated. Neither would noise be communicated from room to room, as in the case of an ordinary'partition, for with the wire lathing the plaster clinches so' thoroughly as to form a solid coat of as great or greater thickness on the inner as on the outer side, giving not only the solid partition of boards, but four ordinary thicknesses of plaster, which would in a great measure deaden the sound from room to room.

The object of my invention is to apply wirecloth lathing to buildings in such a manner as to leave a space between the lathing and whatever part of the building it may be attached to, thus allowing the plaster to press through the meshes of the cloth over every part of its surface, so that it will thoroughly clinch and retain its double thickness through.- out the entire wall. The usual way of applying is to staple or otherwise fasten the wire- 'the ordinary staple, Fig. 5.

cloth directly to the joist or fuming-strips. Where the cloth comes in contact with such joist or strip, the plaster cannot go through the meshes and clinch. At such places a heavy jar is liable to detach portions of the plaster and deface the wall, and in case of fire, the plaster, not being held securely, is liable to crumble away and the fire to communicate with the wood thus exposed. My method entirely obviates these objections, for where the plaster is forced through each square of the cloth it clinches so thoroughly that it cannot be jarred off nor burned through. In fact, it cannot be detached at all except in pieces the size of mesh, and then with great difficulty.

My manner of applying the wire-cloth lathing is as follows: The staples, Figure 3 or 4, are driven into the furring, joist, board partition, or, in the case of brick partition or wall, into the mortar between thebricks atdistances of from six to twelve inches apart. These staples are so bent as to allow of being driven readily into whatever they are to be attached to, and when they have attained the required distance from such partition or wall at which the wire-cloth is to be held form their own stop. This secures a uniform, even surface for the cloth, and consequently an even, smooth surface of plasterot' uniform thickness throughout the wall. After driving these staples where required,one end of the wire-cloth is fastened to the furring or joist by means of p This I drive crosswise over one already driven to hold cloth down, and with wire;cloth securely held between. When the end is sufficiently scoured the cloth is stretched from bottom to top of wall, or from end to end of ceiling, and aholding-staple, Fig. 5, is driven over each receiving-staple, Fig. 3 or at, until the whole is completed.

Figs. 1 and 2represent section of wire-cloth lathin g ready for the plaster, with staples, Fig. 3, driven into furring-st-rips to hold cloth at required distances, also staples, Fig. 5, holding cloth in position against said staples. The staple, Fig. 6 in drawings, may be used without the under staple, Fig. 3. This would be driven into the joist, i'urring, or wall till the short leg of staple reached whatever driven into. It is then closed over the wire or wires of cloth (which have been passed. between the distaneing-stap1e,ztnd the holding-staple for legs of the staple) by means of pinchers insecuring said lathing at a, distance from the 10 serted between the meshes of cloth. L beams fuming-strips, or partitions.

WhatI claim, and desire to secure by et- 5 ters Patent in the application of wire-010th lathing to buildings, is

The combination ofthe beams,furring-strips, or partitions and the wire-cloth lathing, the

Witnesses:

W. P. WILSON, E. W. TAYLOR 

